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Scrinium callimorphum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Mitromorphidae
Genus:	Scrinium
Species:	S. callimorphum
Binomial name
Scrinium callimorphum (Suter, 1917)
Synonyms
† Euthria callimorpha Suter, 191 (original combination)

Scrinium callimorphum is an extinct species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitromorphidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 16 mm. S. callimorphum was a carnivorous gastropod that was first recorded in the Eocene period

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Distribution

This extinct marine species is endemic to New Zealand, and the surrounding areas.

References

1. ^ MolluscaBase (2018). Scrinium callimorphum (Suter, 1917) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=831656 on 2018-04-20
2. "Mindat.org". www.mindat.org. Retrieved 24 October 2022.

• Maxwell, P.A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. pp. 232–254 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch

External links

• "A.G. Beu and J.I. Raine (2009). Revised descriptions of New Zealand Cenozoic Mollusca from Beu and Maxwell (1990). GNS Science miscellaneous series no. 27."

• Scrinium
• Gastropods described in 1917
• Gastropods of New Zealand